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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1995 | | The prospects for 128 bit processors (yarchive.net) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1996 | | White Collars Turn Blue (mit.edu) |
| 85 points | 15 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1997 | | Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 85 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Joy of Perl (salon.com) |
| 85 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why No One Uses Functional Languages (ugcs.caltech.edu) |
| 85 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I will never have a girlfriend (logological.org) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1994 | | Neural Nets (teamten.com) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1998 | | Inmos and the Transputer (transputer.net) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Radioactive Boy Scout (harpers.org) |
| 84 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (robertcaro.com) |
| 84 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1995 | | Holography Without Lasers: Hand-Drawn Holograms (eskimo.com) |
| 83 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1996 | | Some rules kids won't learn in school (ime.usp.br) |
| 83 points | 13 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1996 | | Purely Functional Data Structures (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 83 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1997 | | Inside Nintendo 64 (n64.icequake.net) |
| 83 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1998 | | High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (www3.nd.edu) |
| 83 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1993 | | NCSA Mosaic for X 1.0 available (groups.google.com) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1993 | | Why Cryptosystems Fail (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 82 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1993 | | Typeful Programming (lucacardelli.name) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Year on the Net (wsj.com) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1997 | | Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (web.archive.org) |
| 82 points | 15 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1998 | | Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (archive.debian.org) |
| 82 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1999 | | Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (nngroup.com) |
| 82 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 1999 | | D-Expressions: Lisp Power, Dylan Style (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 82 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome (improbable.com) |
| 82 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1992 | | For Shame: Why Americans Should Be Wary of Self-Esteem (newrepublic.com) |
| 81 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1992 | | Riding the Rays (douglasadams.com) |
| 81 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1994 | | Source code for Glider Pro (github.com) |
| 81 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1994 | | Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (autometer.de) |
| 81 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1995 | | ResEdit Reference (developer.apple.com) |
| 81 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1995 | | Letter from Unabomber to Dr. David Gelernter (montanaheritageproject.org) |
| 81 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1996 | | Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (netaddiction.com) |
| 81 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1997 | | Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (fourmilab.ch) |
| 81 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1998 | | For Sale: Free Operating System (archive.nytimes.com) |
| 81 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography (cryptome.org) |
| 81 points | 13 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1991 | | The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1994 | | NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (web.archive.org) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation (paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (bioperl.org) |
| 80 points | 11 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1996 | | One person's war on junk mail (langston.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1996 | | Internet Explorer is evil (toastytech.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1998 | | Washington Pizza Index (washingtonpost.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1999 | | Side Effects of the Growth of Wealth (nytimes.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1993 | | Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (ritdml.rit.edu) |
| 79 points | 10 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1993 | | Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (acypher.com) |
| 79 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Newton Application Architecture (waltersmith.us) |
| 79 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1997 | | For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (nytimes.com) |
| 79 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1998 | | The “Only” Coke Machine on the Internet (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | Foundations by Greg Egan (gregegan.net) |
| 79 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | Contact Yahoo (docs.yahoo.com) |
| 79 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1999 | | A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass (docs.freebsd.org) |
| 79 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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